“Regardless of whether God is in or out of time, the person is in time. So does God know what is in a persons heart, when that person dies?”
You asked a question of when God knows something, not when a man knows something. It is a meaningless question asked of a being not constrained by time and space. There is no before and after for God. God’s knowledge isn’t restricted by time. Moreover your question assumes that there is some nature of the human heart to know. Some Christian belief is that the heart is infinitely wicked, so even mere humans can predict what a person’s heart will be upon death. Ergo the necessity of substitutionary atonement in that belief system.
“No, it doesnt remove people from their responsibility for evil acts while they are alive.”
How can people be responsible for their evil acts if your God is their author? Doesn’t responsibility require free will not to choose evil? Weren’t you arguing for the absence of moral free will when you said that God is responsible for evil? You seem to have a contradiction between an all-powerful God responsible for evil while still holding people responsible for their crimes. And how do we establish what behaviors are crimes, as opposed to social conventions? If God is responsible for evil how can it be evil?
Of course there are assumptions, we both have made them. You assume God is not restrained by time, don’t you, that there is no before or after for Him? You assume his knowledge is not restricted by time.
If God’s knowledge is not restricted by time, why would He not know what choices a person will make, even before He creates them? Are you saying that God does not know what the future holds for each of us, and He does not know what a man is thinking?
Why wouldn’t people still be responsible here on earth, even if God is the author of their evil actions? We have laws for this, don’t we? Just because someone chooses an evil act, that doesn’t mean that God didn’t know about it before, does it? I wasn’t arguing for anything, I was asking questions.
Maybe evil doesn’t even exist to God? Perhaps, it’s just a word we use to descibe behavior.